Friday, June 7, 2013

Beware, There's a "bug" in the Galaxy S III

Some researchers from the University of Massachusetts managed to find a "tick" (bugs) that infects the default browser on the Samsung Galaxy S III. This bug was allegedly able to make users pay a higher toll than usual.

According to the researchers consisting of Emmanuel Cecchet, Robert Sims, Xin He, and Prashant Shenoy this bug makes the browser download the picture a lot more than it should and also increase the processing time of a page. Both of these make the necessary Internet bandwidth rise.

They found the bug while testing the benchmark application Quality of Experience (QoE) to be shown the results at the IEEE Symposium in Montreal, Canada, Sunday.

 
"Currently we produce results on multiple devices and networks to trace Wikipedia, we realized significantly higher latency for smart phones Samsung S3, both WiFi and 3G networks," the researchers wrote, as quoted from Phone Arena, Wednesday (5 / 6/2013).

The cause of this problem, according to the researchers quartet, is srcset HTML that allows mobile devices to download the image with the right size for a device. At Galaxy S3 device itself, HTML srcset downloaded all the images that produce a longer load time and of course the use of larger data packets.

Even so, this problem does not seem to have an impact on all the products because srcset being drafted (draft) and is not used in all products.

Do not want to hit this bug, you should use a browser other than the default Android browser, such as Chrome and Firefox.

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